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Danes eyeing first Superseries title

Denmark’s Christinna Pedersen-Kamilla Rytter Juhl have tasted success in the mixed doubles, but have yet to get their hands on an OSIM BWF World Superseries women’s doubles title.

They, however, are supremely confident of ending their drought after beating the top seeds in the Maybank Malaysia Open presented by Proton on Friday.

Juhl (left), who won a world title with Thomas Laybourn in 2009 and Pedersen, whose partnership with Joachim Fischer Nielsen is among the best in the world, were all smiles after beating Mizuki Fujii-Reika Kakiiwa 21-19, 21-9.

“We have never won a women’s doubles Superseries event, but we are confident in righting that record in Kuala Lumpur,” said Juhl. “It is slightly easier as the world champions (Wang Xiaoli-Yu Yang) are not here.

“Having said that, we won’t be underestimating the rest of the pairs in the draw. We have been playing well these past few months and hopefully we can make the breakthrough this week.”

Pedersen said: “To be honest, we don’t even know who we will be meeting in the semi-finals as we have just been concentrating on one match at a time. I know it is a cliché, but that’s the truth.

“As Kamila said, we are playing well and maybe the time is right for us to win the elusive title.”

The Danes will meet China’s Bao Yixin-Zhong Qianxin, who had an easy time in their quarter-finals as Malaysian youngsters Vivian Hoo-Woon Khe Wei retired from the match after an injury while trailing 21-14, 9-4.

“Even though we lost the first game, we were confident of winning. We knew we had to be patient and not lose focus. We have never beaten Ha and Kim before so we need to get working on some plans on how to do this,” said Naito, who will be hoping to enter her first Superseries final.